North American markets look set for a greater open today as oil prices recover and in front of the start of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and Apple’s earnings report later within the day. Crude prices were hovering slightly above $30 a barrel on hopes that OPEC and non-OPEC producers ...

The Canadian trucking industry is facing a “bumpy” 2016 like a weak economy and an excessive amount of capacity weigh on freight rates, according to a brand new analysis from RBC Capital Markets. In response, the financial institution recommends purchasing companies with “low operating costs, strong balance sheets and prudent ...

A group of investment advisers who are set to maneuver to a different employer might be creating a record of having been bought and sold the most quantity of occasions. The advisers under consideration are moving to Euro-Pacific Canada because of the sale of Dundee Goodman Private Wealth by Dundee ...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc said hello depleted its gas and oil reserves considerably faster than it replenished them with new resources in 2015, its worst performance since an accounting scandal that engulfed the organization 12 years back. Shell said its reserves replacement ratio – the proportion of gas and oil ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded Caterpillar Inc.’s stock to market Monday, saying the world’s biggest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment was going to suffer from a new “commodity deflation cycle.” Goldman slashed its 12-month price target on Caterpillar to US$51 as part of the cut. The downgrade sent the company’s stock ...

Barclays Capital announced steep cuts to the price targets for Canada’s banks ahead of their earnings reports later this month. John Aiken, financial services analyst with Barclays Capital, reduced his 12-month price targets on Canada’s big banks by an average of almost 20 per cent Wednesday, saying all six would ...

Federal lawmakers have released excerpts from a large number of documents detailing how two drugmakers hiked prices to squeeze more revenue from some live-saving medicines, a practice that has recently sparked public outrage. The most hated CEO in the usa: Martin Shkreli, who raised price of a single Daraprim pill ...

It took about a year of discussions and negotiations; it was incredibly innovative and thought as the very first of its kind in Canada. But if this was all over two Canadian pension funds – whose names haven’t been disclosed – paid Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada a combined ...

TORONTO – Investors started a vacation shortened trading week in U.S. and Canada in buying moods, sending indexes in Ny and Toronto higher. The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 173.74 points, up more than one percent, to 12,554.98 in the close, contributing to a virtually 300-point gain on Friday. In New ...